Sentence examples for state comedy from inspiring English sources

Live Like Pigs (1958), a welfare state comedy, interspersed with raucous songs, about a group of wanderers settling in a council house, played to quarter-full houses.

Because of these objections to laughter and humor, Plato says that in the ideal state, comedy should be tightly controlled.

In an unusual joint deal Miramax and Fox Searchlight bought "Garden State," a comedy written and directed by its star, Zach Braff of the television comedy "Scrubs".

(I'd much rather hear Cameron Esposito's perspective on the state of comedy in 2015 than, say, the ghost of Buster Keaton's – the prospect of a talking comedy-ghost notwithstanding – not because he's irrelevant, but because she is of this moment).

To her the absence of that sort of humor now is symptomatic of television's weakened state of comedy.

Here's what four other participants in coming festival events had to say about the state of comedy and politics.

After graduation, Koecher worked in various jobs: high school teacher, reporter for state television, comedy writer for radio – but StB entanglements remained constant.

But I will now show you how the state of Comedy in the Fringe today reflects the cultural bankruptcy of late capitalism.

The relationships between characters were at the core of Sullivan's work, along with an undercurrent of social commentary, and, as the years went by, he lamented the state of comedy writing.

One of the first feature films to generate real enthusiasm is "Garden State," a comedy in the vein of "The Graduate" written and directed by and starring Zach Braff, who in his day job appears on the NBC comedy "Scrubs".

The "Spotlight" films that have already been picked up for distribution include the American premiere of "Swimming Upstream," an Australian drama with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis; "Broadway: The Golden Age"; and "Garden State," a comedy with Natalie Portman, in its New York premiere.